Abstract: In order to improve the safety against unauthorized access and spying in a method and a respective computer program product for the script-controlled execution of at least one application on a computer, using the help of a software robot, which controls a graphic user interface (28, 28a, 28b) by applying pattern recognition, it is provided to install on the computer a terminal server and, preferably by a first program component (18, 18a, 18b), to start a terminal client, which establishes via a remote control protocol a remote connection to the terminal server. Here, the terminal client provides the graphic user interface (28, 28a, 28b) for the software robot. Within a session (24, 24a, 24b) allocated to the terminal client then a second program component (22, 22a, 22b) is started, which calls the software robot and implements a script (26, 26a, 26b) to execute at least one application.

Abstract: A method is provided for determining a characteristic quantity, in particular, the quality and/or performance, of IT systems at the application level, in particular, during operation, wherein at least one application (21, 21?) is started on at least one computer (5) of the system and wherein a time (?t) between the starting of the application (21, 21?) and reaching a certain application state, like its actual availability to a user, is calculated and evaluated for determining the characteristic quantity.